Letter: Bible remains up for interpretation

Monday, Feb. 20, 2006 | 12:30 p.m.

It is always amusing, sadly, to hear or read the rationalization from the Religious Right when it cites what it thinks is immoral or sinful.

Anyone who has read or studied the Bible with an open mind knows that the book is a collection of confusing articles and contradictions. Anyone can find something in the Testaments to justify anything they so desire.

What the Religious Right has been doing regarding many of its so-called hot button political issues is disingenuous, especially those involving abortion, contraception and fornication.

There is not one word dealing with contraception and abortion in the Old or New Testament. None of these "sins" are even mentioned in the vaunted Ten Commandments. Yet the judgmentalism of the Religious Right has fraudulently foisted them into the American social conscience.

This movement wants everybody to accept that they feel that every public, taxpayer-paid building should have the Ten Commandments on public display.

James J. Poupard, Henderson

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